Goliad massacre

The Goliad massacre occurred on 27 March 1836 when 425 Texas Army troops, captured by the Mexican Army, were massacred outside of Goliad, Texas during the Texas Revolution. The contingent, led by James Fannin, was sent to relieve the Alamo from the Mexican siege, but the contingent was intercepted by the Mexicans, who had just taken the Alamo. The prisoners were supposed to be taken to a military prison, but Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna ordered that all captured Texans were to be executed as traitors. Therefore, all 425 Texan prisoners were executed by firing squad on the side of a dirt road in an infamous massacre.